Dr Aluvihare is Transplant Hepatology and Governance Lead at the Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Hospital, and Chair of the British Liver Transplant Group. He qualified at the Royal Free Hospital and completed his professional training at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. He undertook MRC funded Training (PhD) and Clinician Scientist fellowships in Immunology/Molecular Biology at the worldrenowned MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge. He was awarded a 5-year HEFCE Senior Lecturer Fellowship and an ROTRF grant in transplantation research at King’s College Hospital. He is a member of the UK Liver Transplant Advisory Group, Hepatology representative on the National Multivisceral Transplantation Review Group, Transplant Hepatology representative on the British TransplantSociety Council and a member of the Editorial Board for Liver Transplantation.

Dr McCaughan is currently the AW Morrow Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology) at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the University of Sydney. He is also Director of Transplant Hepatology, the GE/Liver Diagnostic Laboratory, and the Liver Immunobiology Research Laboratory Centenary Research Institute for Cancer and Cell Biology. His primary clinical interests are liver transplantation, viral hepatitis and autoimmune hepatitis.

Dr De Martin is a transplant hepatologist at Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Paul Brousse Hospital in France. She is the Vice-Chair of ILTS Vanguard Committee and topic coordinator of the ILTS Liver Transplant Immunology Special Interest Group. Her fields of interest include liver transplantation, autoimmune hepatitis in particular severe acute and fulminant forms and hepatic toxicity of immunotherapy for metastatic cancer.